...This chapter discusses the issue of race in the Southern Baptist community. Southern Baptist churches are rarely fully integrated, and women of color who participate in predominantly white congregations often acculturate to the prevailing norms in the church. However, the Southern Baptist...

...Examines the historic beginning of black Kentucky churches and religious affiliations the Second Great Awakening spread to Kentucky. This historic revival took root in the Kentucky Barrens in 1797 and spread to one of the nation's largest revivals at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1801...

...This chapter examines African American churches and fraternal societies in states along the Ohio River during the post-war years. African Americans valued the church next to the family as the most vital element in their lives and the church provided social as well as spiritual nourishment in a time...

...Confirmation of the impact of Kentucky's 1797 Great Revival preached a doctrine of freedom, establishment of black religious life, development of white antislavery churches, and black benevolent societies. As a result, newly formed churches and societies spread the gospel of human freedom through...

... that were there before the creation of the city. This is unique to Lexington, as other cities in the region lack remnant woodland pastures in their parks. Parks, along with churches, colleges, and corporate campuses provide opportunities to restore the original woodland pasture trees and enhance the city’s...

...Priests served as a means of imposing custom and authority, and also they acted as a fulcrum at the center of Catholic-Protestant relations. Also, Catholicism's material manifestations served as media for contact between non-Catholics and Catholics. Church buildings and their corresponding...

...This chapter looks at how dominant and subordinated memories interact in an oral history project and examines the dynamic between public and historical memory through multiple community symbols such as schools, churches as well as a variety of symbolic events such as flooding. Additionally...

...Chapter One provides a broad historical overview of African American community formation in Cairo, illuminating how the region’s economic instability and distinct blend of northern and southern racial practices combined to solidify the Black church’s emergence as the leading institution in local...

...Chapter Five examines the closing stages of the Cairo Black Power struggle, situating state repression of activist church agencies and the revival of conservative political agendas within white congregations as fundamental but overlooked causes of the movement’s demise. In contrast to many other...

... of Illinois black deproletarianization civil rights movement Williams Bobby Cairo Black Power United Front Black churches grassroots activists In the spring of 1972, the United States Commission on Civil Rights held a three-day public hearing in Cairo to investigate, in the words of Commissioner...

...This chapter investigates the major socializing institutions that help individuals transition from private to public life. Colton Calvin individualism Kennedy John P on business as a public good Webster Daniel Whigs Christianity churches as social engines of political organization Republican...

.... It discusses trends in the African American population in the Ohio River counties and highlights the role of churches in representing the African Americans' desire for racial autonomy and self-expression. factories in antebellum Kentucky Henderson Jefferson County Kentucky average number of slaves per owner...